sunburns, monsoons in a tent, and the adventures in marriage...

I tend to be a planner.  An over-planner perhaps, but typically, this works in my favor.... yesterday, it did not.  Our first wedding anniversary was supposed to be perfect.  Beyond perfect actually, that that wonderful dreams are made of and blog readers literally turned green with envy at our incredible day... well, that will not happen here.  So read on freely, for if nothing else, you might feel a bit smug about how your first anniversaries turned out.

I will not share the events of the morning.  Not because of what you think happened (trust me, that would have started this day off on a much better note!) but because some fights in marriage are meant to stay in marriage.  :) Un-awesome #1.  We obviously hit up El Charro - it was still a Sunday! - and Jeremy's lunch made him a bit sick.  Un-awesome #2.  Headed to the ICubs game where it was literally 100 degrees and there was no shade to be found anywhere... here comes Un-awesome # 3:

On the up side, we always love a good ball game and in shocking ICubs fashion, they won!  The game wasn't all bad... good seats (especially when everyone around us got smart and left the game early!), great hot dogs (I've lost 14 pounds, I can have a hot dog!), and a never ending flow of ice cold diet coke.

my hubby the hottie (in desperate need of a haircut and new sunglasses!)

 

 every one of these heads left by the 2nd inning.  holy hot day.

we're seriously adorable.

Anywho.  Ball game.  At hour three, the fourth inning ended and we were definitely feeling the effects of too much sun.  Un-awesome #4?  Headaches, stomach aches, and crankiness hit us hard.  (Yes, you read that right - three hours, only 4 innings!)  So, we took off.  Best decision of the day!  The problem was, we couldn't head home because I had a surprise being set up for him in the backyard and we weren't to be home until at least 7.  We couldn't eat dinner because well, we had just eaten giant ball park hot dogs!  So, we decided to catch a movie.  :)  A perfect idea for the hottest day known to man.  Drove to Jordan Creek, movie wasn't playing. (that's 5!)  So, we sat.  In the mall.  Doing nothing until our favorite restaurant was open.  (Latin King, where we had our first date!)  Drove there, mouths watering, to discover it's closed on Sundays (this is a rant for another day!).  Yup, #6.  Turned around AGAIN and headed back toward West Des Moines.  Came to a shockingly fast stop in the middle of I80 and sat in traffic for an hour due to one of the worst accidents either of us has ever seen.  Covering all three lanes of traffic and as we drove by, they were cutting a woman out of the truck that was laying on it's hood.  (Insert lots of prayers for these people!)  (This equals at least 4 un-awesomes) Dinner at HuHot and then headed home for him to find this... 

And this... 

And this... 

And these people... 

(Happy Curt day!)

 

(thanks to the Aubergs for setting up the tent and campfire fun!)

Happy to report that campfire was wonderful, the smores were fantastic, the company was incredible and the twinkle lights were beautiful.  Enjoyed the thought of sleeping in the tent and made it until about midnight when we could no longer breathe and headed in to enjoy some AC.  An hour later, torrential downpour.  Sometimes God works in sneaky ways... :)

We are sooooo thankful for a wonderful year of marriage and for all of our friends and family that have loved and supported us during this time.  Now, looking forward to year 2 (everyone says that the first year is the worst so I'm assuming that starting today, marriage will be easy and incredibly blissful! :) can't wait!)